System Components

1) Hardware (i.e. the devices used to administer surveys, to process and store data, and produce reports).

2) Software that provides for questionnaire administration, data processing, data base management, report generation, and various other administrative functions.

3) Questionnaires:

• Patient Intake: Provides detailed information for treatment planning.
• Patient Update: Provides information concurrently with treatment about the patient’s condition, progress and satisfaction with treatment.
• Brief Patient Update: Provides a global mental health status indicator, and the severity of symptoms of depression.
• Counselor: Provides for counselor assessment of the patient’s condition, progress and prognosis (e.g., for utilization review).

4) Procedures for administering the patient questionnaires that include a manual describing how to install and use the system. In addition, Polaris staff is available for questions through our web site or telephone.

5) Reports that provide information for clinical decision support (individual patient reports) and for outcomes assessment (program level aggregate data).

Click here to view a sample individual intake report.
Click here to view a sample individual update report.